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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[December 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 63
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
1 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 96: 53
Summary:
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:
Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:
Glacial climates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 102–4
Summary:
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Behrens
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 122
Summary:
Requests autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 20
Summary:
Full background on the difficulties of the vicarage of Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 21
Summary:
Describes a supposed cross between a cow and a red deer or doe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 5
Summary:
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 69
Summary:
Thanks for the pamphlets; JL’s paper, "Primitive condition of man" [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 6 (1868): 328].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 6
Summary:
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A39
Summary:
On spurs in peacocks. [See Descent 1: 290 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 22
Summary:
Will try to get more information about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
The rumours about John Robinson [curate of Down] cause JBI concern. He will seek to get the facts – will try to protect Robinson against malicious rumours, but if he is immoral he must go forthwith.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 36
Summary:
Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 23, 23a
Summary:
Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.
Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lachlan McLean
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 16
Summary:
Describes an animal that is said to be a hybrid between a cow and a deer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hellins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B76–7, B84
Summary:
Results of his breeding have not borne out his opinion that females are more numerous in Lepidoptera [see Descent 1: 313]. Still convinced he is right, suggests only way to settle question is by controlled breeding of large numbers of each species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Barbot Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1868 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 102
Summary:
On why it is said Indian elephants do not breed in captivity; mating habits of male so violent as to require restraint.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 316
Summary:
Sends letter [from Haeckel?] opened by mistake.
August Schleicher a great loss.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project